Adam picked the soundtrack of his childhood for his first rerun episode. Jim wrote three sentences for his rerun episode. Dan's intro was 90 seconds. Adam's Behind The Scenes Ted Talk goes on for over three unbearable minutes but the good news is that two members of Schoolhouse Rock creator Bob Dorough's 1996 band, Paul Gutierrez and Frank Meyer, who couldn't make it when we originally recorded this episode kindly sent us their picks for favorite SHR toon!
Originally released July 28, 2022
HEY! What's your most-loved and least favorite Schoolhouse Rock song!? The gang takes a look at their five favorite tunes from the iconic 1970s educational television cartoons of their youth. Adam dreamed up the idea to do our first top five episode, focusing on Multiplication, Grammar and America from the series' Golden Era, 1973-1976. Our first-ever 1970s-era show is crammed with fun facts, interjections, bootlegs and contests SHR royalty Aralee Dorough (voice on "My Hero Zero" and daughter of creator Bob Dorough) even kindly weighs in with her favorite! Please tell us in the comments how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky @wewillrankyoupod !
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ABC, American Rock, animation, Blind Melon, Jeff Buckley, cartoons, Conjunction Junction, darn that's the end, Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough, De La Soul, education, Elbow Room, Figure Eight, Fireworks, flute, Grammar Rock, The Great American Melting Pot, Hamilton, I'm Just a Bill, Interjections!, jazz, Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here, manifest destiny, Essra Mohawk, Mother Necessity, Multiplication Rock, No More Kings, A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing, Preamble, rats, Ready or Not, Here I Come, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, Saturday morning cartoons, Schoolhouse Rock, Jack Sheldon, The Shot Heard Round the World, Sufferin' Till Suffrage, Three is a Magic Number, Unpack Your Adjectives, Verb: That's What's Happening, WOW, 1970s.
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What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on Soul Coughing's debut album? Dan chose this crazy bit of 1994 word salad jazz hiphop fusion for us to rank. He and Adam share stories of seeing the band, their kind submission for the Songs For Summer memorial album and witnessing their first time playing together in 25 years while Jim struggles to find nice things to say. FIGHT! Black Crystal Wolf Kids' Jeff Miller chimes in via video from Mexico. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Reseda, Wichita but not Chicago.
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Alternative hiphop, Tori Amos, the Andrews Sisters, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, Tchad Blake, Blueeyed Devil, Summer Brannin, Bus to Beelzebub, cartoon music, Casiotone Nation, Ray Charles, City of Motors, Courageous Cat Minute Mouse, Mark de Gli Antoni, Digable Planets, Mike Doughty, Down to This, the five percent nation, Mitchell Froom, Ruby Froom, Fu Schnickens, Fugazi, funky, Yuval Gabay, HFStival, hiphop, Howlin' Wolf, I'll get the wrists, Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago, Janine, jazz, Knitting Factory, Jeff Miller, Mr. Bitterness, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, the Modern Lovers, Moon Sammy, New York, noir, rap, reunion, Ruby Vroom, sampling, Schoolhouse Rock, Raymond Scott, Screenwriter's Blues, Solid Steel Radio Show, Songs For Summer, Soul Coughing, spoken word, standup bass, Sebastian Steinberg, Igor Stravinzsky, Sugar Free Jazz, Supra Genius, television themes, Toots and the Maytals, A Tribe Called Quest, True Dreams of Wichita, Uh, Zoom Zip, upright bass, Suzanne Vega, velvet crush, voulez-vous the bus, yellow number five, Yor, you get the ankles, John Zorn, 1994.
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RERUN: Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Blood & Chocolate ranked (2022)

Hey everybody. Dan here. So it’s my turn to choose a ReRun Episode we recorded earlier and are bringing back and I chose Elvis Costello’s “Blood & Chocolate”. You may know that sometimes I go for an album that is going to be a surefire crowdpleaser with my cohosts. But most of the time, I like picking an album where I genuinely don’t know how at least one of them is going to react. It doesn’t always work out. Please see the episode where we discuss Lana Del Rey’s “Born To Die” if you want to see 90 minutes that left me scarred for life. BUT, the seemingly impossible dream for me was always to introduce an album to all my co-hosts that they didn’t know previously and have not one, not two, but ALL THREE of them fall in love with it.

Now don’t get the wrong idea - that was never the goal of my picks. I’m far too obsessive to make it that simple. It’s a complicated algorithm that tries to counterprogram against my past five picks across year of release, genre, and artist characteristics combined with whatever’s in my gut at that moment. It’s mostly the gut thing actually. But that “what if” idea was always in the back of my head in general. And with this pick, I passed up the typical Costello albums you’d expect to be the go-to pick here because I’ve always felt Blood & Chocolate was the underappreciated underdog. And I love a good underdog.
I’m sure you know that feeling of introducing someone you love to music they also decide to love. There’s nothing better. I hope you’re listening either because you already dig this album or because you’re looking to fall in love with something new. And I hope you’re happy now. If you don’t get that yet, you’ll get it after this episode. Enjoy.
What are your most favorite and least-loved songs on Elvis Costello & The Attractions' 1986 album Blood & Chocolate? Dan chose to bring back this raw/ragged fan favorite instead of a more well-known record to get three fresh opinions from casual admirers of Mr. McManus. Contains lots of praise and the best story you will ever hear about his stage name. Be sure to stick around to the end for a historic announcement about our next few episodes. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your local bloodbank. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod .
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Battered Old Bird, The Beatles, Blood & Chocolate, Blue Chair, Elvis Costello, Lou Costello, Crimes of Paris, Bob Dylan, Napoleon Dynamite, Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head, Honey, Are You Straight or Are You Blind, I Hope You're Happy Now, I Want You, Penn Jillette, Leave My Kitten Alone, Live Aid, Los Lobos, lyrics, Declan McManus, Next Time Round, Steve Nieve, Cait O'Riordan, Poor Napoleon, Elvis Presley, The Rutles, searing, Bruce Thomas, Pete Thomas, Tokyo Storm Warning, Uncomplicated, 1986.
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